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I grew up in Bedfordshire and at the time early to late seventies i had access to several waters that contained good Rudd.The technique my father and myself used was to anchor a large onion bag or similar stuffed with stale bread to a housebrick and heave it out as far as possible into the swim.

 

The idea was to get the bag suspended about a foot to eighteen inches under the surface and wait for the Rudd to arrive.Fishing a piece of flake under a self cocking float was the tackle set up we used fished alongside the bag.Catches of a dozen or so good sized Rudd(1.5lb plus) were commonplace.We could never fish to far out as obviously trying to launch a brick plus the bag was tricky to say the least but in the margins it was a killer method.I should add that there was a second piece of cord tied to the brick and securely staked to the bank so we could retrieve the bag and brick.

 

We used this method for a few years at such well known lakes as Southill Park, Brogborough Pit and Elstow Pit(this was long before gained Linear took control of the lake) and it served us proud until the quality of the Rudd fishing began to decline.I did try this method about 7 or 8 years ago at a local lake and it still worked, unfortunately though it was also a magnet for the carp not to mention every swan on the lake :angry:

 

Presumably the point is that the bits of bread find their way out of the bag somehow and rise up to the surface? Yep, I can see that would be a big attractant for the water birds. Problem with floater fishing also, nowadays. having said that I can't see why it should be more of a problem now than it used to be, but I never got hassled by swans when I did floater fishing about 12 years ago. Maybe the swans have increased in number on our lakes locally?

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Boat fishing on Slapton Lea, Devon (1952)

That triggered my fading memory of that unique place, I fished it some 20 years later, and can recall vast shoals of small Rudd and huge swarms of midges too, and was completly unaware of the historic tragedy that took place just a few hundred yards away in the sea

An old adage is "never go back"

 

However, I went back to Slapton Lea in the late 1960s, found, as you did, zillions of small rudd,. few if any big ones. The pike (I had had some big 'uns in 1952) had "gone back" - big heads and thin bodies. Not worth fishing for.

 

The only decent fish there were eels, stacks of them, all from two to five pounds. Eel after eel on rudd dead-baits.

 

 

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Presumably the point is that the bits of bread find their way out of the bag somehow and rise up to the surface? Yep, I can see that would be a big attractant for the water birds. Problem with floater fishing also, nowadays. having said that I can't see why it should be more of a problem now than it used to be, but I never got hassled by swans when I did floater fishing about 12 years ago. Maybe the swans have increased in number on our lakes locally?

 

Funnily enough i never recall swans or other water birds being a problem when i was younger and of course back then carp were far less common than they are now, BTW i cannot take credit for this method as it is as old as the hills have certainly seen it mentioned in one of older angling books possibly Stillwater Angling by Dick Walker.

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